Undulations of Roads and Mind

A gentle sloping up and down road, ambling along lazily through South Karnataka, surely the Bangalore-Mysore stretch SH-17 must rate as one of the best drives in India for the car borne. Mind the frequent cuts along the way and watch for the incidental tractor, truck nosing its way into your path. Recommended 5/5 for all road enthusiasts. Can surely relieve some of the misgivings against your local municipality for not doing the city roads well.

Took the trip to lighten up some, the heavy load of the year, and make some fresh decisions. But the typical hectic of a vacation starts the moment you land at your resort and then suddenly you want to do everything, with so little time at hand. So did I make my decisions, I did not quite, still in the process..

A dilemma - when you are asked to choose between peer pressure and self-actualization, what do you choose?

Peer pressure to stay in line with the game and have the license to blab about everything philosophical, without needing it as a relief. Self-actualization, the longer, tougher version, where success can propel to a new league but failure.... To think of it, if one has it in oneself to hit back hard after a failure then perhaps one should go for failure than for a small incremental victory. Perhaps the uneven string in life is that when we become successful in habit(I am quite far from there yet) we are afraid to lose, and nature doesnt mean it to be that way. .I think I saw this same hesitation to try in some very successful people, people I respect a lot, and that put a bit a bit of disbelief in me.

Returning to the question, self actualization or rat race. Which will it be? A bit of passion with a spot of imagination and a dollop of effort should do it, but that's a phraseology one might say. When I wake up tomorrow morning, I'll have to answer some questions to realist who doesnt go easy on easy-flowing spiritual answers until the late evening blogging hour.